Professor Priscilla Layne has been working on her manuscript for her second book “Out of This World: Afro-German Afrofuturism” this Fall 2018 semester in Germany. While doing so, she gave a lecture in American Academy in Berlin, Germany about “Afrofuturist … Read more
Phi Beta Kappa recently inducted 190 new students in Fall 2018, 4 of whom are students from GSLL. Clara Marcelle Shirley Schwamm, a senior with Information Science and Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures majors and a mathematics minor, daughter … Read more
The German Studies Association organized a “Jonathan Hess Memorial Roundtable” at its forty-second annual conference held in Pittsburgh between September 27 and September 30. More than a hundred people, including many of Professor Hess’s former doctoral students as well as … Read more
Gabriel Trop, associate professor of German, has been awarded the 2018 Hettleman Prize for Artistic and Scholarly Achievement by Young Faculty. The awards, made possible by the generosity of Phillip (UNC Class of 1921) and Ruth Hettleman, recognize scholarly and artistic achievement by … Read more
Phi Beta Kappa recently inducted 190 new students, 7 of whom are students from GSLL. Meg Keeter Fletcher, a senior with linguistics and Hispanic linguistics majors and a Russian language and culture minor, daughter of Lyn Fletcher and Jimmy Fletcher … Read more
By Priscilla Layne, assistant professor of German in the Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages in the UNC College of Arts and Sciences When people hear I’m a German professor, they ask me two questions: Do I have German relatives? … Read more
